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Gov. Brian Schweitzer says he still has no interest in a Cabinet position under President-elect Barack Obama.

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Legislative leaders and other officeholders will be among the speakers Thursday at the 87th annual meeting of the Montana Taxpayers Association.

Eliza Wiley IR photo editor - A solo green Ponderosa Pine is surrounded by trees killed from severe beetle infestation.

Local health officials, in conjunction with area residents, are beginning to research data to draft recommendations for legislation now - before local legislators get swamped with session business.

I lived in Helena for four years and plan to return in the next year. While I understand the deer problem, citizens and the city should realize they have something truly unique.

The Montana National Guard is sending the state's former Adjutant General off to retirement, but not without honoring him one last time.

A trial date is set for a Sioux City man accused of breaking his own daughter's leg.

HELENA, Mont. - A new study finds that Internet access lags in rural Montana, and is more costly than in other parts of the country.

An Irish fraternal organization in Helena wants to raise $40,000 to build a monument in honor of Irishman Thomas Francis Meagher .

Across the country, retailers are hiring fewer seasonal employees to help out with what experts predict will be a painfully slow holiday season from a sales perspective.

HELENA - Montana lawmakers might face more debate on an issue they thought they had settled in 2005: banning smoking in bars and casinos.

Someone is regularly dumping large amounts of a carcinogen hazardous to aquatic life into Helena's sewers, and the chemical is killing nitrogen-eating bacteria at the city's wastewater plant, causing the ...

Stepped-up investigation of food-stamp fraud in Montana is showing results, with seven people indicted in the past three months on allegations they cheated the federal food program, U.S. attorney Bill Mercer ...

The Montana Supreme Court has denied a request for a new trial from a Helena man convicted of stabbing his visiting nephew to death in 1999.

HELENA, Mont. - Preliminary calculations based on figures that vary widely by county indicate the value of residential property in Montana has risen by 40 percent to 50 percent since 2002.

Key staffers are being hired for administrative work during the Montana legislative session, which convenes in January.

A 36-year-old Missoula man faces a felony charge for allegedly forcing himself on a woman he met at a downtown Helena bar.

HELENA, Mont. - Three woman who worked at the Montana State Prison resigned Monday in the wake of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct involving a male inmate.